William ceoal



(No Modei.) I r I W. OROAL.

MACHINE FOR COVERING, MEASURING, AND CUTTING OFF STRIPS, &0.

Patented Jul IN'VENTOR BY ATTORNEYS.

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NITED STATES WVILLIAM OROAL, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO THE BLUN & HENIUS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

MACHINE FOR COVERING, MEASURING, AND CUTTING OFF STRIPS, dc.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,119, dated July 28, 1885.

Application filed February 4, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CROAL, of Brooklyn, in the county'of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Covering, Measuring, and Shearing Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved machine for covering and cutting bars, strips, &o., into pieces of uniform length, which machine can be adjusted to out the pieces any desired length.

The invention consists in the combination, wit-h a cutter, of devices for covering strips, rods, or wires, and arotary feeding device, both operated from the same shaft.

The invention also consists in novel com binations of parts, as will be fully set forth hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a front view of my improved measuring and shearing machine. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

The shaft A is journaled in boxes in standards B on abase, O, and on the said shaft a disk or wheel, D, is rigidly mounted, and on one side of the said disk or wheel one or more cutting bars or blades, E, are bolted, the ends of which project beyond the periphery of the wheel.

Adjacent to that side of the wheel on which the blades E are secured an upright, F, is formed on the base, and a fixed blade, G, is held on the top of the upright. 1

On the shaft A a bevel cog-wheel, I, is mounted, which engages with a bevel cogwheel, H, on the main or driving shaft, J, at right angles to the shaft A.

In two standards K on the base 0 two horizontal shafts, L, are journaled, one above and the other below the shaft A, and both at right angles to the said shaft. Gog-wheels M, en-

gaged with each other, are rigidly mounted on the shafts L, and on one end of the upper shaft a disk or wheel, N, is rigidly mounted, and has an annular tongue, 0, formed on its rim, which tongue fits in an annular groove,

(No model.)

P, formed in the rim of a wheel, Q, mounted on the lower shaft,L, directly below the wheel N. The point of contact of the wheels N and Q should be in the same horizontal plane as the top of the fixed blade G.

On one end of the lower shaft, L, a cogwheel, S, is mounted which engages with a cog-wheel, T, held in a frame, U, mounted to swing on the said bottom shaft, L, and provided with an arm, U, having a curved slot, through which a bolt, V, passes into the adjacent standard or upright, K, and on it a nut, V, is held for holding and locking the frame U in place. A cog-wheel, W, on the main shaft J,engages with the wheel T on the frame U, the said wheel W being shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The standards 13 and K are arranged in two pairs at the sides of the rectangular base.

The wire or strip X, before being passed through the feeding-rollers, is covered with cotton,silk, or other material, which is wound on the said strip or wire by means of a suitable flier, c; or the strip or wire can be covered by any other covering-machine, such as are used 7 5 for covering the hoops of hoop-skirts, corsetbars, &c.

The operation is as follows: The bar, rod, orstrip X to be cut into lengths, after having been covered,is passed between the wheels 3 or rollers N Q, and by the same is moved in the direction of the arrow a over the edge of the fixed blade G, and is then sheared off by the blades E on the wheel or disk D. The bar, rod, or strip is thus cut into pieces of uniform 8 length, as the speed of the wheel D remains uniform and the bar is fed at a uniform speed by the wheels N Q.

If the pieces are to be longer, the speed of the feeding-wheels must be increased relao tively to the speed of the cutter, and if they are to be shorter,the relative speed of the feed must be decreased. This is accomplished by changing the wheel WV 011 the shaft; for as the size of this wheel is increased the speed of the 5 feeding devices increases.

The wheel T in the pivoted frame U always engages With the wheel S, and can be adjusted higher or lower to engage with a larger or smaller wheel, WV.

Having thus described my invention, What Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a cutter, of 1nechanism for covering the wire, and mechanism for feeding the covered wire to the cutting device, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with the wheel D, having blades E, of the fixed blade G, the feeding-wheels N Q, for feeding a strip or wire to the cutting device, and of mechanism for covcring the wire or strip before it has passed to the feeding device, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The combination, with the shaft A, of

the disk D, the blades E on the same, the fixed blade G, the shafts L L, the feedingwheels N Q 011 the same, gearing for revolving the shaft A from the shaft J, and gearing revolving the shafts L from the shaft J, substantially as herein shown and described.

4. The combination, with the shaft A, of the disk D, the blades E 011 the same, the fixed blade G, the shafts L L, the feeding wheels N Q on the same, the shaft J, the bevel cog-wheels H I, the cogwheel S on the lower shaft, L, the cog-wheel W on the shaft J, the intermediate cog-wheel, T, engaging with the cog-wheels S and W, and mounted on an adjustable frame mounted to turn on the bottom shaft, L, and provided with devices for locking it in place, substantially as herein shown and described.

WVILLIAM CROAL.

Witnesses:

I. NARHEIM, A. M. KELLY. 

